Archive | September, 2012

Personal Statements (College Application Essays)

17 Sep

Personal Statement 1 Template

Personal Statement 2 Template

Directions from today: (read below or download here)

While Working: SAVE & SAVE OFTEN  (Don’t lose your work!)

After you’re done, save your work to your email or a flashdrive in case you need to edit it

 Steps for today:

1)   Finish Rough drafts for prompt 1 & 2

2)   Go to mswrightreads.wordpress.com (the first post will have links to download a template)

3)   Type up your drafts in word using the template you downloaded

4)   Proof read your essays, editing & correcting for errors (have a classmate look at them or someone outside of class before you submit and print your final draft)

Checklist:

    1. Did you answer the prompt?
    2. Did you tell a clear, vivid story with excellent details?
    3. Is it interesting?
    4. Written in your own voice? Honest? Personal but professional?
    5. Check it against the essay 6-trait rubric

5)   WORD COUNT: the combined total for the 2 essays CANNOT go over 1000 words, each should be NO LESS THAN 250.

You MUST list the word count at the bottom of each essay or I wont grade it.

To find the word count, highlight all of your essay’s words/content &:

MAC: click on tools à word count it will pull up a screen with the word count for the highlighted text.

PC: click on review at the top right, then word count will show up at the left, click on it & a screen will pop up with the count.

Repeat these steps for your second prompt.

MAC:         PC: 

6)   Submit your documents to the correct turnitin.com assignment

7)   Print both essays (library is $0.10/page; J3 & the College Center are free)

8)   HOMEWORK: FINISH YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENTS for prompt 1& 2:

you must have printed out hardcopies ready to submit at the very beginning of next class; you CANNOT print during class time; you must have already submitted your digital copies to turnitin.com before class begins

DUE DATES FOR FINAL Personal Statements, prompt 1&2:

Periods 1 & 5: Thursday 09/20                             Periods 3, 4, 6: Friday 09/21

REMINDER: Cover Letter & Resume Revisions are due NO LATER THAN 2:05 PM 09/20

Need help?

Updated Resume Template / Cover Letter & Resume Revision Opportunity

17 Sep

Click to download an updated resume template

 

click here to download the Cover Letter & Resume Revision Opportunity

 

REMEMBER ALL REVISIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 2:05 PM THURSDAY 09/20/2012, no exceptions. 

Resume & Cover letter- English 11th

11 Sep

11th grade ENGLISH (09/11 for period 1; 09/12 for periods 3, 4, 5; 09/13 for period 6)

Objectives for today:

  1. Sign up for turnitin.com
  2. Type your resume & cover letter (see below for templates to download)
  3. Proof your resume & cover letter (ask any questions you need to)
  4. Submit your resume & cover Letter to turnitin.com & print both in the library (if you don’t have printer access at home or you don’t want to go to J3 for free printing)
    1. Remember you must turn in a hard copy of your resume & cover Letter & submit both to turnitin.com. Periods 1 & 5 are due by the start of class bell on 09/13 & periods 3, 4, 6 are due by start of class bell on 09/14
  5. Turn in your turnitin.com handout & get your college application personal statement essay drafts back from me.
  6. After you have finished both page 1 & page 4 of the packet from last class (“Thinking About The Writing Prompt”) please read through your essay & answer the 1st draft questions on today’s handout (you don’t need to worry about the draft 2 or 3 columns yet). Please use the Editing marks sheet to help you mark up your sheet.

Resume Template: resume_template

Cover Letter Template: cover_letter_template

Other helpful documents:

Sample_Student_Resumes (if you need a visual of what your resume should look like, check out this document)

Dystopian Lit Circles Web Quest items

5 Sep

Below you will find the various resources you will need for your webquest.

Your goal is to find out what cultural and personal influences inspired or affected your author’s writing of your lit circle’s book. (for example: what elements caused Ray Bradbury to write a novel about a society that now longer, and even bans, reading?)

Use the resources below as a starting point, and find additional ones as you see necessary to build a picture of your author’s influences. You  MUST properly MLA all of your sources! (lost your MLA sheet already? check out a pdf of it here: MLA_updated_handout)

Extra copies of the assignment handout can be found here: webquest_handout

The Giver

Anthem

Fahrenheit 451

Ender’s Game

The Hunger Games

The Uglies